Memo from Hershkoff to Counsel Re: Jencks Memo; from Lado to Chambers Re: Attorneys Fees

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September 17, 1990

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  • Case Files, Sheff v. O'Neill Hardbacks. Memo from Hershkoff to Counsel Re: Jencks Memo; from Lado to Chambers Re: Attorneys Fees, 1990. f7df0dac-a146-f011-877a-002248226c06. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d1861927-b5f7-4380-b408-ed032503732a/memo-from-hershkoff-to-counsel-re-jencks-memo-from-lado-to-chambers-re-attorneys-fees. Accessed November 02, 2025.

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Norman Dorsen 
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MEMORANDUM Ira Glasser 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

Eleanor Holmes Norton 
CHAIR 

TO: Sheff Team NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 

i Helen Hershkoff 
FROM: Helen Hershkoff# % ion 

DATE: September 17, 1990 

3 Christopher Jencks 

  

Enclosed is a law student memo summarizing critiques of 
Christopher Jencks' Inequality. The articles are on file at the 
ACLU. A memo on Jencks' more recent book is also being prepared 
and will be distributed as soon as it is available. 

 



  

  

MEMORANDUM 

To : Julius LeVonne Chambers 

From : Marianne Lado 

Date : September 6, 1990 

Re : Attorneys Fees in Sheff v. O'Neill 
  

Enclosed please find a copy of Doe Vv. State of 
Connecticut, a decision rendered by the Connecticut Supreme Court 
in July, 1990. Wesley Horton, who argued Doe and is LDF co- 
counsel in Sheff, interprets Doe as precluding an award of 
attorneys fees in our case. 

  

  

In Doe, the Connecticut court concluded that the first 
article, §10 of the state constitution, which provides, "All courts 
shall be open, and every person, for an injury done to him . . 
shall have remedy . . .," does not create a right to attorney's 
fees. 216 "Conn. 85, . 106 (1990). The court, further, rejected 
arguments for the adoption of a "private attorney general" doctrine 
or "substantial benefit" standard for the award of attorney fees. 
216 Conn. at 108-109. Plaintiffs in Sheff have no other 
independent statutory basis for an award of fees. 

Please let me know if Doe raises any questions. 

MEL A¢E€A4 

MEL: ja 

Enclosure 

co : Steve Ralston 

Ron Ellis V

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